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Day Forty Nine (Year Three)

I taught again today.  Second lesson.  If my student's progress thus far is any sign, in another month I'll have to be transcribing stuff by Bach and Mozart.  Okay, so this may well be an exaggeration, but still.  Considering that she's only taken two lessons, she's doing remarkably well.

The nice part about it, for me, other than the obvious satisfaction of watching her improve, is that it has forced me to stop and think about how I would approach the instrument were I just starting to learn now.

Also, in going back through some resources and looking for things to help her out, I'm discovering stuff that I finished off in an attempt to put together a solid program for learning, and then promptly forgot that I finished.  It was a nice moment today to realize that I had gone through all of the keys and written out every note in each one.  Finding that felt like a building block.

I still need to take notes on today's lesson, but hopefully I can do that tomorrow, as opposed to waiting three or four days this time around.

Not much else going on today, really, but all told it was still a pretty good day.

I need to write some songs tomorrow.  Or at least try to.

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